THE ADDAMS FAMILY Closes at The Bushnell

The national tour of the new musical The Addams Family, based on the family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, will make its Hartford premiere through February 26, 2012 at The Bushnell's Mortensen Hall as part of the 2011-2012 Broadway Series sponsored by Travelers and Webster Bank.

Tickets are priced from $17 - $80, are on sale now, and can be purchased by calling the Bushnell box office at 860-987-5900 or by visiting www.bushnell.org. Performances are Tuesday – Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8:00 p.m., Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and Sunday at 1:00 and 6:30 p.m. The Bushnell is located at 166 Capitol Avenue in downtown Hartford.

The Addams Family began performances in March 2010 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York and ran through December 2011.

The Addams Family features an original story and it's every father's nightmare. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. A man her parents have never met. And if that weren't upsetting enough, she confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he's never done before - keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday's "normal" boyfriend and his parents.

In a prolific career spanning six decades, Charles Addams created several thousand cartoons, sketches and drawings, many of which were published in The New Yorker. But it was his creation of characters that came to be known as The Addams Family that brought Addams his greatest acclaim. With a unique style that combined the twisted, macabre and just plain weird with charm, wit and enchantment, Addams' drawings have entertained millions worldwide and served as the inspiration for multiple television series and motion pictures.